Gemstone comics, Katie Sullivan

[deanmary]

    Thanks Gary for the confirmation that the prestige titles are
staying 64 pages.  Of course, I would have bought them even if they
had gone down to 48 pages.  Don't go getting any ideas though! :)

    I'd love to read your paper about the feminism of Daisy and
Goldie, Katie.  Please let us know when you post it on your site.  I
wish I would have thought about using my Duck obsession and knowledge
for a paper when I was in college!

    Come to think of it though, I DID uses Duck stuff for one class
though.  I was taking Children's Literature and one of the assignments
was to do a storytelling session for primary school aged kids.  The
story I ended up telling was "The Second Richest Duck" by Carl Barks!
I don't think my teacher thought much of it at first, as she didn't
even like Disney animated movies.  Plus, I had to convince her that I
would indeed be *telling* the story, not reading it out of a comic
book.  It went over really well because I told it during the year
"Ducktales" had premiered and was very popular.  Of course one kid
asked where Launchpad was and I had to say that he wasn't in this
story but Donald was.  At the end I gave each student their own
personal ball of string (actually some yarn wound into a ball) and
they all seemed to want one pretty bad.

    Has anyone else on the list used Duck or Mouse stories in their
educational or professional life?

Dean Rekich